Hello,
I have been fighting during tha last week against the following problem
without success. Can anybody help me?
I have a Filemaker 8 database and I want to access (retrieve) it from
Mathematica, make some calculations (radiobiological modelling, fuzzy
modelling) and put the results back in Filemaker...
1. Filemaker 8 natively supports ODBC/JDBC, so I created a dummy database
using Filemaker8 (just a few fields and entries, just one table) called it
"PruebaMathematica" and activated "Filemaker Pro -> Sharing -> ODBC/JDBC". I
left the database open.
2. In a separate installing package (from the original CDRom) I got the
client drivers (DataDirect Sequelink for JDBC 5.4 Installer). I run the
installer and I now have "Library/Java/Extensions/driver/lib/sljc.jar" It is
supposed to me that this is the client driver I need to access data in
Filemaker.
3. I registered the driver using the terminal (java
-Dsql.drivers=com.ddtek.jdbc.sequelink.SequeLinkDriver)
4. Then I moved to mathematica, following the online documentation I opened
Xcode and create a file named "_Filemaker_Prueba.m" with the following code:
JDBCDriver[
"Name"->"filemaker",
"Driver"->"com.ddtek.jdbc.sequelink.SequeLinkDriver",
"Protocol"->"jdbc:sequelink://",
"Version"->1.0
]
and put in Mathematica5.2/AddOns/Applications/DatabaseLink/DatabaseResources
That is supposed to be the client driver for mathematica
In Mathematica I can run this code
In[1]:=Needs ["DatabaseLink`"]
JDBCDriverNames[]
Out[2]:= {filemaker, hsqldb, jtds_sqlserver, jtds_sybase, mysql, odbc}
That means that the file is recognized having good format
5. I created another piece of code for the SQL connection. It is called
"PruebaMathematica_3.m" and resides in
Mathematica5.2/AddOns/Applications/DatabaseLink/DatabaseResources
SQLConnection[
JDBC["filemaker",
"jdbc:sequelink://localhost:2399;databaseName=PruebaMathematica;DBUser="admin";DBPassword="admin""],
"Name" -> "PruebaMathematica_3",
"Description" -> "Prueba de conexion a traves de JDBC",
"Username" -> "",
"Password" -> "",
"RelativePath" -> False,
"Version" -> 1.
]
6. Back to Mathematica I tried to open "PruebaMathematica_3" without
success. I ran in parallel the following ("demo" is the demo conecction that
comes with Mathematica):
In[141]:=conn1 = OpenSQLConnection["demo"]
conn2 = OpenSQLConnection["PruebaMathematica_3"]
SQLConnections[]
Out[142]:=SQLConnection[demo, 20, Open, <>]
Out[143]:=OpenSQLConnection[JDBC[filemaker, ;
jdbc:sequelink://localhost:2399;
databaseName=PruebaMathematica;DBUser= Alfredo iMac17], Description -> \
Prueba de conexion a traves de JDBC, Location -> \
/Applications/Mathematica_5.2/Mathematica \
5.2.app/AddOns/Applications/DatabaseLink/
DatabaseResources/PruebaMathematica_3.m, Name -> PruebaMathematica_3, \
Password -> , RelativePath ->
False, Timeout -> None, Username -> Alfredo iMac17, Version -> 1.]
Out[144]:={SQLConnection[demo, 20, Open, <>]}
//
\\
//
So I can get no data because I cannot set up a connection for Filemaker. Do
anybody see where the problem could be??
My system: iMac17 G4 with Tiger. Java SDK 1.4 and 1.5. Mathematica 5.2 and
FM8
Thanks
Alfredo Polo MD
Brachytherapy Unit.
Catalan Institute of Oncology
Barcelona. Spain